Wreck and Plunder in 18th Century Portland
Author | : Glanville J. Davies |
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Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Glanville J. Davies |
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Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : David Cressy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2022-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192678140 |
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval and commercial shipping, but an unfortunate percentage was cast away or lost. Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.
Author | : John Stevenson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317897137 |
John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but long-unobtainable work on Popular Protest and Public Order 1700-1870 in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832) appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater part of it is entirely new, and brings the analysis of popular disturbance -- and its political and economic roots -- through to modern times. Tracing the theme through from the Chartists of the late 1830s to the British Union of Fascists in the late 1930s, it highlights both the changing agendas and the unchanging tensions that underlie social disorder.
Author | : Anthony Fletcher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1987-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521349321 |
This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.
Author | : J. R. Lowerson |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Thomas Harrison Eames |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1940* |
Genre | : Portland (Me.) |
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Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1845 |
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Author | : American Historical Association |
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Total Pages | : 1016 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Kenneth Poolman |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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In this first nonfiction retelling since Commander Shelvocke's 1726 published account, a Royal Navy veteran narrates the South Seas adventures of the English privateer Speedwell in procuring Spanish booty. Includes a glossary of vintage sailing terms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (boo